
1935 Morrow hardcover, this the later 1941 Pocket paperback
3rd with Sir Henry Merrivale, master of the ‘impossible crime’ solution

1935 Morrow hardcover, this the later 1941 Pocket paperback
3rd with Sir Henry Merrivale, master of the ‘impossible crime’ solution

cover art by H.J. Hanschel (?)


map by Ruth Belew


1987 International Polygonics reissue
cover art by Roger Roth

cover art by William Teason
originally published as Why Didn’t They Ask Evans?, Collins hc, 1934
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2nd book with Gramps Wiggins
cover art by Wayne Blickenstaff

1961 Pocket reissue – cover art by Charles Binger
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1963 Horwitz edition from Australia

1963 British edition from Penguin
cover art by Sheila Perry

republished in 1968 by Walker as A Whiff of Death, Asimov’s preferred title


1970 Sphere edition from the UK

published that same year in the US by Doubleday as The White Savage
26th with Australia’s most brilliant detective, Napoleon Bonaparte, referred to as “Bony”
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